Tonalité : B minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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February 8th, 1878
South of Trout Creek, west of Cedar Lake
On a winding mountain trail of
the North Pacific Union Rail
The snow arrived on time,
the circus train was running late
Rip spot’s past and all the
knuckles worn,
Firebox bursting to the running boards
A pounding in his chest,
crushing like a cider press
The hogger rode the throttle ‘round the
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bender like a flank-strapped horse
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“Let’s return now to the dust
as the dust we are;
Tonight, our bridal fate,
the hour’s come to consummate!”
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And drove her massive body like a
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truck into the iron bars
Limestone thrown from out
the hopper’s back
Ash Cat tossed against
the diamond stack
From cradle to caboose,
the frozen bolts broke loose,
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Sent that cage spinning like a dreidel off
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the icy tracks
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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Run on, Rabbit, run!
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Before the East sky wakes the sun!
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Sails set to the dreadful cold,
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Until your anchor-heart takes takes hold
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Run on, Fox & Bear,
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From this dismal dream’s despair!
Cast thoughts to in the open ocean of air
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Until your thread catch some
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where
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“Mother, please come
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along!”
Verse 5
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“My tusks are dull, my eyes,
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half-blind,
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Too Too old to run, too big to hide,
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And have neither friend nor enemy,
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Nor that phantom, ‘self’-identity
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Nor concern for what
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‘they’ll’ do to ‘me’
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Now, my children, run free!”
Verse 6
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But Tiger, why sit still,
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As the officers climb the hill?
What stars cast down their spears,
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Cooled your fire with their tears?
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Verse 7
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“Gone that siren’s sound,
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It’s a silence now pours down
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Gone, my next of kin,
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And all once without now lives
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within”
Verse 8
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“Topiary Tiger, once burned bright
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Save your tales of gnostic sight
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And take heed on this
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(most) auspicious night!
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Topiary Tiger, once burned bright”
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